Facebook (#5) and Microsoft (#6) dipped compared to their 2012 rankings too, but Amazon moved up for the first time (#7).

According to LinkedIn’s stats, Twitter employees 4,000 people, the smallest by far in the top 25 companies. The top skills for Twitter employees are Scalability, Distributed Systems, and Python.

Does Twitter’s slip in status have anything to do with its impending IPO? You’d think more users on LinkedIn would be interacting with Twitter’s official page, searching for intel. The shuffling could be an effect of heightened interest in other companies, like Amazon, Tesla and Spotify, or a sign that tech scene stalwarts like Facebook and Twitter are due for a major innovative roll-out.